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Boxing clever: the simple conservation strategy saving threatened Roseate terns

A simple conservation strategy deployed by conservationists and scientists from BirdWatch Ireland, Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin is greatly assisting in the extraordinary success of threatened Roseate terns on Rockabill Island, off the coast of Dublin

23 Aug 2022

Environment|Research|Science

Trinity spinout ETU receives strategic growth investment

ETU, Trinity College Dublin and SFI ADAPT Centre spinout, secures significant investment that will support accelerated growth for the learning technology leader.

25 Aug 2022

Awards and Funding|Business

Water fluoridation: effective prevention for tooth decay and a win for the environment

Research findings also strengthen the case internationally for water fluoridation programmes to reduce dental decay, particularly in the most vulnerable populations.

29 Aug 2022

Research

Trinity researchers secure eight SFI-IRC Pathway awards

Researchers applying from Trinity have secured eight Science Foundation Ireland – Irish Research Council (SFI-IRC) Pathway awards worth a combined total of around €4.4 million.

29 Aug 2022

Awards and Funding|Research

Eleven Trinity researchers awarded €4 million to tackle global health challenges

The newly announced Investigator-Led Projects for Health (ILP) 2022 from the Health Research Board (HRB) will drive advancements in treatments and therapies across a broad range of human health and disease including neurodegenerative disease, respiratory disease, bloodstream infection, arthritis, cancer, and depression.

30 Aug 2022

Awards and Funding|Health|Research

Ecode wins Launchbox 2022 student entrepreneurship competition

Teams of talented young entrepreneurs have pitched for backing at TCD LaunchBox 2022 Demo Day

5 Sep 2022

Innovation|Students|Sustainability

Trinity researchers lead €3.2 million project targeted at degenerative retinal diseases

The project (EYE-D) will target diseases that can result in severe loss of vision and are estimated to affect 224,000 people in Ireland, and 40 million people worldwide.

5 Sep 2022

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science

TILDA study to support older family carers receives funding

The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity has been awarded a new grant as part of the Health Research Charities Ireland/Health Research Board Joint Funding Scheme.

6 Sep 2022

Health|Research

Age, sex and blood pressure medications impact brain blood oxygen during standing

Researchers from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College have found differences in the brain blood oxygen response to standing associated with age, sex and blood pressure medications.

9 Sep 2022

Health|Research|Science

Slowing of continental plate movement controlled timing of Earth’s largest volcanic events

Scientists have shed new light on the timing and likely cause of major volcanic events that occurred millions of years ago and caused such climatic and biological upheaval that they drove some of the most devastating extinction events in Earth’s history.

9 Sep 2022

Environment|Research|Science

Trinity and SETU host CONNECT conference

Trinity and SETU bring the SFI research centre for future networks annual conference to the South East

13 Sep 2022

Research|Science

Trinity and IBM strengthen collaborative research and education links

Trinity and IBM have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that reflects both parties’ intention to strengthen collaborative links between the two organisations.

15 Sep 2022

Innovation|Research|Science

New research project to lay foundations for next generation of Old and Middle English scholarship

A new interdisciplinary project, which will facilitate the next generation of research in Old and Middle English, has received funding from the Irish Research Council (IRC) under the COALESCE programme.

15 Sep 2022

Arts|Awards and Funding|Science

Trinity researchers receive Silver Eco and Ageing Well International Award

Trinity researchers win EU award recognising the Horizon 2020 ‘SEURO’ Project’s research in the field of ageing well and the silver economy

15 Sep 2022

Awards and Funding|Health

WATCH: Making data storage more sustainable

Professor Tim Persoons, from Trinity's School of Engineering, talks about his work. This video features in the Trinity Research Stories campaign.

17 Jun 2021

Innovation|Research|Sustainability

Concerning high rates of metabolic syndrome found in older Irish adults

New research from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College shows a high prevalence of metabolic syndrome among adults aged ≥50 years in Ireland. The study is published in the journal PLOS One.

15 Sep 2022

Health|Research

Who do you think you are? What does your avatar say about you?

When using social virtual reality, we hide behind avatars. But is it really hiding or is it a way to express our new digital selves? A new Trinity study suggests it is both – experimenting with one’s avatar can be a creative act of self-representation, but also one of conformity or escapism.

19 Sep 2022

Arts|Research

One in four women are not aware of uterine cancer: World GO Day

The Irish Network for Gynaecological Oncology (INGO) highlights the importance of increasing awareness among women that maintaining a healthier body weight and being physically active can reduce the risk of Uterine Cancer.

20 Sep 2022

Health|Research

Culture Night 2022

See the range of events taking place in Trinity College Dublin for Culture Night this Friday 23rd September

20 Sep 2022

Arts

Trinity ranked in world's top 100 universities

Trinity College Dublin has improved its ranking as it rejoined the QS Top 100 universities in the world list.

7 Jun 2022